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Fedora 10 Security Advisory: Ghostscript Integer Overflows

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential patch for Fedora 10 focusing on integer overflow corrections and boundary validations within Ghostscript's management of ICC profiles.
Security update for integer overflows (CVE-2009-0583) and upper bounds checks (CVE-2009-0584) in the ICC profile handling.

Summary

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM)

interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which

implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and

an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript

translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like

those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally

used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to

non-PostScript printers.

If you need to display PostScript files or print them to

non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you

install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts

package.

Security update for integer overflows (CVE-2009-0583) and upper bounds checks

(CVE-2009-0584) in the ICC profile handling.

* Fri Mar 20 2009 Tim Waugh 8.63-5

- Applied patch to fix CVE-2009-0583 (bug #487742) and CVE-2009-0584

(bug #487744).

[ 1 ] Bug #487742 - CVE-2009-0583 ghostscript: Multiple integer overflows in the International Color Consortium Format Library

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487742

[ 2 ] Bug #487744 - CVE-2009-0584 ghostscript: Multiple insufficient upper-bounds checks on certain sizes in the International Color Consortium Format Library

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487744

su -c 'yum update ghostscript' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 10
Version: 8.63
Release: 5.fc10
Summary: A PostScript(TM) interpreter and renderer.

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